Cognitive is a next computing paradigm, responding to demand for always-on, hyper-aware data technologies that scale from device form to the enterprise.Cognitive computing is an approach rather than a specific capability....

The Clarabridge Customer Connections (C3) conference has gotten to be a thing for me. There can't be more than a handful of people, beyond company co-founder and CEO Sid Banerjee and me, who have attended all six C3s, dating back to the fall of 2008...

I recently posted an article, Metadata, Connection, and the Big Data Story, covering the big-data analysis process as applied to "human data" that is communicated in intentionally expressive sources such as text, video, and...

I recently posted an article, Metadata, Connection, and the Big Data Story, covering the big-data analysis process as applied to "human data" that is communicated in intentionally expressive sources such as text, video, and...

Analysts and marketers do a lot of naming and classifying -- This is a That -- in order to communicate distinctions among the many available products and technologies. The categorization practice dates back at least to Aristotle, who created...

I'm always happy to have occasion to talk about the meeting ground of business and analytical technologies with Tom Anderson, a pioneer in defining and promoting Next Generation Market Research (NGMR). NGMR is characterized by inclusion of the full-...

As a sometime conference organizer, I need to track events that will compete for the attention of my target audience. The competition consists of conferences internationally, or focused conferences in or near the New York region (my next ...

The Call for Speakers is open for the next Sentiment Analysis Symposium, slated for October 30, 2012 in San Francisco. Whether you're an experienced user or technologist, please consider proposing a presentation. Submit your proposal, by...

The next Text Analytics Summit is coming up in four weeks. The June 12-13 conference will be the 8th annual Boston summit, the 8th Boston summit I've been privileged to chair. Will you join us? The summit series was the first business-focused...

Social sentiment matters -- customer opinions, attitudes, and emotions -- rants and raves that affect corporate reputation, provide valuable market and brand insights, and help you understand and engage with customers.Yet there are too many low-...

This posting started off as a comment to Gary Cokins’ SAS blog article, Could Beethoven have implemented business analytics? I decided to share my thoughts more widely however, really reflections about where we in the analytics world came...

Business loves market-size estimates. They quantify opportunity, measured as the gap between an existing and an addressable market, with growth rates providing a reality check. They help an individual solution provider understand how...